Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Sean McGrory Literary Analysis 9/13

The
poems “Mending Wall,” “Slam, Dunk, &Hook,” and “Common Ground” all share a
common message with the speech “The Service of Faith and Promotion of Justice
in Jesuit Higher Education” by Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach. This message that
they all speak of is of great determination. Each one of these poems or speech
give examples of what it means to have determination and to not let failure
settle in.

The speech by Fr. Peter-Hans
Kolvenbach gives great gratitude for the Jesuit universities work on promoting
justice to the world. Though it even goes farther in saying how there is always
ways for improvement. This is that message of determination that even once you
succeeded there is always more you can do for yourself and society alone.

In the poem “Mending Wall,” It
speaks about something that would not love a wall that keeps tarring it down.
This is because each time the speaker has to tell his neighbor to help him
rebuild the wall each year. I think this again shows the message of
determination because each time the speaker keeps building the wall even though
he knows it will be torn back down again. This tells you that no matter how
hard things get we must never give up on something that matters so much to us
even if it is just a wall.

In the poem “Slam, Dunk, &Hook,”
it talks about boys playing basketball. It speaks of how much they love the
game and have such a great determination for it. One example of there
determination is even when one of the boys lost his mother he still played
basketball all day long. He even was so unwavering in his playing that he
almost broke the backboard. This shows you that even in some of are most
sorrowful times in life we cant give up on what we truly love and need to look
to the good in things.

In the poem “Common Ground” it
speaks of how all the parts of our body tells us something about a person and
where they have come from. It talks about how we are all made in the images and
likeness of our family members. Which you can see this person is made from
people that had great persistence in their lives. They should harness that and
learn to better it for themselves and the world.

All three poems and the speech show
us a great idea of something that we should have in our lives and share to the
world. This is because if we all harness persistence we can make the world an
even better place for us and for future people to come.